Early career ecologist? If you have an idea for a Review or Long-term Studies in Animal Ecology paper, we invite you to submit a short abstract and be in with a chance of winning our next Sidnie Manton Award. Proposals will be assessed by the journal Editors and successful applicants will be invited to submit a manuscript to Journal of Animal Ecology. Submitted manuscripts will … Continue reading Sidnie Manton Award: submit your proposal now
Looking ahead to 2023, we are excited to announce that Nate Sanders is stepping into the role of Executive Editor. Professor & Director of the E.S. George Reserve at University of Michigan, Nate has been a Senior Editor with the journal since September 2015 and has led on a number of exciting initiatives in that time; most recently an upcoming Special Feature, ‘Leveraging natural history … Continue reading Journal news: Executive Editor announcement
We are delighted to announce that we have integrated the language editing software, Writefull, into the online submission system of Journal of Animal Ecology. Writefull is an automatic proofing and editing AI tool trained on published articles from STEM subject areas. It screens text for correctness of grammar, spelling, vocabulary and punctuation, as well more subtle language issues such as style, word order, and phrasing. Submitting authors … Continue reading Writefull trial announced for Journal of Animal Ecology
This summer, we’re pleased to welcome both a new Associate Editor, Kate Pereira Maia, and a new Research Highlights Editor in Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal. Get to know them here. Research Highlights Editor: Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal Grupo de Ecologia de Invasiones, INIBIOMA – CONICET – Universidad del Comahue, Patagonia, Argentina. Mariano is a community ecologist with broad interests in the factors that generate, maintain and threaten … Continue reading Editor news: summer 2022
Celebrating the best Review or Long-term Studies in Animal Ecology paper by an early career researcher, the Journal of Animal Ecology Editors are pleased to announce the winners of the third (2022) Sidnie Manton Award as Diego Ellis Soto and Kristy M. Ferraro. Diego and Kristy’s winning paper, A methodological roadmap to quantify animal-vectored spatial ecosystem subsidies addresses the important realisation that animals can exert … Continue reading Winners announced: Sidnie Manton Award 2022
We are delighted to announce Kate P. Maia as the 2021 winner of our Elton Prize early career researcher award for the article Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the resilience of plant–insect networks to extinctions. In this post, Kate shares her #StoryBehindThePaper. The research Ecological communities can be depicted as networks in which species are connected by interactions. These ecological networks have far-from-random structures, … Continue reading Elton Prize 2021: winner announced
Each year Journal of Animal Ecology awards the Elton Prize to the best Research Article in the journal by an early career researcher. Today we present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award, based on the 2021 (90th) volume of the journal. The winner will be selected in the coming weeks so follow the blog and watch this space for future announcements! This year’s shortlisted candidates are: … Continue reading Shortlist Announced for Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Award
We’ve recently updated our policy on animal research ethics for all the BES journals (Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and People and Nature). We’ve made this update to ensure we’re in line with the most up to date thinking on animal ethics, and to ensure all our published articles are consistent in the reporting … Continue reading Updated Animal Ethics Policy
Why do the British Ecological Society journals require me to archive my data? At the BES, along with many other ecology journals, we require that all data (and code for theortical papers) associated with published papers are archived in an appropriate public repository. We do this because we believe data are important products of scientific enterprise, and they should be preserved and usable in the … Continue reading Why archive my data?
The BES journals require authors to include an ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, that distinguishes you from every other researcher and provides greater discoverability for your work. In this blog post, I explain how you can enable ORCID to automatically update and collect all your published work and datasets so … Continue reading How to make your ORCID iD work for you
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